Wednesday, 28 November 2012

Jasmin is all ready to party for any occassion and on my card it's a Birthday Party !!

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I decided not to make a christmas card, but an anytime card with Flora.

I have just done a lot of matting and layering using paper from Trimcrafts Pepper's Christmas Party paper pack and die cut a few sparkles and then coloured Flora with promakers. Just love her big eyes !! To finish off I crinkled some ribbon with a heat gun to make my bow.

For my card this week I have used one of our sponsors image's called Spooky Owl Silhouette
and RED as my other colour.

I ended up making a very thought provoking card I think as the image is so peaceful...

You can't see, but I have decoupaged the image three times. The first layer is the whole image, the second the moon and owl and the third just the owl. I've toned down the background round the moon with a black ink pad and drew a wavy line to edge it. Again you can't see in my photo that I have hilighted some of the tree with stickles to make it sparkle a bit.

The Robyn's Fetish girls have loads more to showcase for you on the challenge blog so please have a look at

Now when I say I hate glitter I mean loose glitter, but I love the effect glitter gives you and as you can see I have used just a bit... well rather a lot actually !!

Cut the snowflakes with my cricut and the swirls using a marianne die and then covered with diamond stickles. Coloured Harry & Hilly with promarkers, then some ribbon top and botton with a bow at bottom. There you have it......a sweet pair of christmas hedgehogs !!

Mr grass hopper has been paper piece and coloured with promakers. I first printed him onto a piece of craft card and then inked and distressed the edges. Then I got to play with my frantage which is a mixture of embossing powders and glitters and all sorts of things which gave me a snowy effect !!

The papers are from a pad called Joyful Peace by G.C.D and as you can see I have distressed all the edges of these as well. Made three folded roses which take a while to get to grips with, but well worth the effort I think !! They 're one of those things, the more you do the better you get !! Just finished off with a piece of fab lace.

Tuesday, 13 November 2012

I decided to make a christmas tag this time, but not in your usual colours !!

This cute little snowman image is called " Birdhouse Snowman " and can be found HERE

The tag background was coloured using two distress inks. I then coloured a piece of white card with a lilic promarker for my layer behind the image and to die cut the snowflakes. Then coloured a small piece of white card with a pink promarker to die cut some smaller snowflakes to mat on top of the larger lilic ones. The holly swirls were cut using a Cheery Lyn die. I never like bare edges so I nearly always have to do some faux stitching to finish off !!

I really can't believe Christmas is so close, so when I saw Robyn's fab image called "Putting Up The Tree" I just knew I had to use it for one of my christmas cards !!

Isin't he cute !!

Just had to 3d this little fellow and used lots of stickles on his hat and for the snow. And wellies just have to shine so glossy accents was used on them !! Just a simple, but jolly fun christmas card !!

Lots more fab samples to be seen by the rest of the team over at Robyn's Fetish Challenge Blog and who knows if you enter you might be the winner !!

This week the DT's from Team A have been playing with some fab images from The Stamping Boutique and mine is called "Birthday Bunny"

The cute paper is by Wild Rose Studio and called Strawberry Picnic. I've done lots of matting and layering on my card and I haven't made any rolled flowers for such a long time so had to make three of them in the matching paper !! The bunting is cut from one of the paper's as well. The sentiment is one of The Crafty Pad Designs and can be found HERE. As usual all has been coloured with promarkers !!

Saturday, 10 November 2012

Scrap club at AMOM, we always have a monthy challenge and Octobers challenge was to pick randomly from a pile of torn out pages which Christina had torn from a magazine called Scrap365 and then scrap lift that page !!

This is the page I got

And this is my scrap lift of a design by Katie Fox

Chocky was my last bun who passed away a few years ago now, but he was gorgeous !!

The papers I have used are from a collection called Tail Waggers & Cat Nappers by Bella BLVD.

The flowers were made using a Sizzix die cut from a piece of card I coloured with a promarker. My title and bunnies were also cut from the same piece of coloured card and cut on my cricut.

Monday, 5 November 2012

I'm not usually known to make pretty cards, but I love this one I made last night !!

It came about because I was invited to a new crafty friends home yesterday and I had a smashing time drinking tea and eating sandwiches and talking about craft and life in general !! Nicole was also very kind to share some of her crafty stash with me and last night I just had to try out the fab Marrianne die and Sizzix embossing folder to make this thank you card for Nicole and her hubby !!

The fab pink colour is one of Tim Holtz distress inks called Picked Raspberry which I have just bought.

Not a car, ship or aeroplane in sight !! But a fun card for any boy or man in your life !!

I`ve use a Crafty Pad Design image called " Hot Dog Stand " And me being me I just had to decoupage some of it up !! The image was coloured in using promarkers and I have used glossy accents to 3D the hot dogs sign at top.

About Me

Diane

Hi, I`m Diane and I have been a crafter all my life. I live with my brother and two dogs, Hugo and Taz. I love alsorts of crafting, but mainly now paper crafting !! I am a mobile hairdresser and love my ladies as they all have a story to tell ( as well as all their moans and groans !!) Hope you find something of interest on my blog. Happy crafting !!